Prosthetic Conscience

Paper Says Edible Meat Can be Grown in a Lab on Industrial Scale

According to researchers, it may soon be possible to grow meat in-vitro on an industrially viable scale. What this means is that one day you would be able to buy meat that did not come from an animal, but rather from animal muscle tissues grown outside the animal. While some people might find this idea disgusting, I’m of two minds about it. On the one hand, the advantages over soy protein seem rather limited. On the other, this is a way of producing meat on an industrial scale without the environmental and animal-welfare impacts of factory farming. There are also potential health and food safety benefits. I can see this taking the pressure off the mass market for meat; real meat could be produced on a much smaller scale by organic, free-range, family farms while McBurgerFilling is grown in vats.

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